(Adnkronos) - L’attore protagonista del film ‘Iddu’ insieme a Toni Servillo
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00:00Loredana Enrico from Necronos.
00:04I'll start with you, Tony.
00:06Yes, please.
00:07Catello is a grotesque character.
00:09How did you approach this role
00:12and what did you try to highlight?
00:16Well, I approached this role with the enthusiasm
00:20that an actor always has
00:22when he is asked to play a character who acts.
00:27Catello wakes up in the morning
00:30and decides to act on a stage.
00:34As I have often said,
00:36he is a bank robber,
00:38besieged by despair,
00:40to the point that he decides
00:42to part with the secret services
00:45to solve his problems,
00:47as we see at the beginning of the film
00:49when he has just come out of prison,
00:51with the capture of Matteo Messina.
00:54This puts him in contact with the secret services.
00:59It is something that I hope
01:02to pass on in a decisive way
01:08to the character,
01:10that when there are talks between him
01:13and the person responsible
01:15on the field of the secret services
01:17for the capture of Titante,
01:19the two recognize each other.
01:21They know each other as people
01:23who love to move,
01:25to get in the way,
01:28to the point that,
01:30in a dialogue that is not in the film,
01:32but that is entrusted to the gaze,
01:34it is as if one says,
01:36I like this one,
01:37and the other responds,
01:38if I could,
01:39I would like to be in his place.
01:41And this is what gives the film
01:45and my character
01:47this grotesque note,
01:48but not in the caricature sense,
01:50but in the sense of a thickening of the sign
01:52with which the character deals,
01:55which, through the ridicule,
01:57multiplies the awareness
02:01that there is immediately behind
02:04a profoundly tragic dimension.
02:06Because from this miserable universe
02:09then depend, in many cases,
02:11the conditions in which a region is found,
02:15perhaps even an entire state,
02:17at the expulsion of a criminal power
02:20that, unfortunately,
02:21is a hindrance
02:23in the civil and social emancipation
02:25of our country.
02:26But sometimes it originates
02:28in these environments that,
02:30seen from afar,
02:31we also find it difficult to recognize.
02:34Seen so closely,
02:35we ask ourselves, tragically,
02:37but how is it possible?
02:38How is it possible not to defeat,
02:41not to oppose
02:43centuries of culture
02:45of our country,
02:46of culture in a broad sense,
02:48to this miserable human story
02:52that guarantees,
02:54favors the latitude
02:57and the experience
02:59of some illustrious criminals?
03:02Well, unfortunately,
03:05studying the history
03:07of his criminal career,
03:11it is a story that intersects a lot
03:13with business.
03:15In short,
03:16Matteo Messina Di Naro
03:17was one of the prominent figures
03:20during the decision of the mafia,
03:23of what we then call
03:24the State-Mafia Treaty,
03:26so bombs in Florence,
03:29in Milan, in Rome,
03:31attacks in Falcone and Borsellino,
03:33therefore a frontal opposition
03:35with the State,
03:36but probably thanks to
03:38support from some parts
03:42of the services
03:43and our institutional apparatus.
03:45So it is a story that unfortunately
03:47intersects with politics
03:49and institutions.
03:50In short,
03:51just read what is written
03:53in the trials
03:54and what are the statements
03:55of the victims.
03:57In short,
03:58there is a lot of literature on this.
04:01What comes out of it,
04:03I repeat,
04:04is that they are always
04:05individual trifles,
04:06that is,
04:07the search for one's own
04:09individual and personal interest
04:11that then determines
04:13this mechanism.
04:14Because what determines
04:16the fact that a person,
04:17an entrepreneur,
04:18chooses a way
04:20facilitated
04:21compared to what the State
04:23guarantees him,
04:24is the motivation behind
04:26a person who,
04:27for a small reward,
04:28for a job,
04:29maybe for someone
04:30in their family,
04:32makes
04:34jump in the air
04:35the possibility of capturing
04:36a hitman,
04:37these are
04:38small things
04:39of human beings,
04:40as Giovanni Falcone said,
04:43that determine
04:44this world.
04:45And therefore,
04:46they must be eradicated
04:48in a
04:50cultural proposal
04:51of alternative things,
04:53which are those
04:54that are written
04:55in our Constitution.
04:56So it becomes political
04:58in this sense.
04:59That is,
05:00if we put forward
05:01the community,
05:02the common good,
05:03the shared possibilities,
05:04the open road
05:05for everyone,
05:06that is the true
05:08and above all
05:10rights for people.
05:12Because the mafia
05:13arrives where
05:14the State does not arrive.
05:16So where people
05:17are not protected,
05:18they have no rights,
05:19they rely on someone
05:20powerful
05:22to be protected.
05:23Instead,
05:24the greatest power
05:25must be that of the community,
05:26of the rules.
05:27Otherwise,
05:28in short,
05:29I repeat,
05:30the basis of this
05:31differentiation
05:32between bad and good
05:33is this,
05:34a political thing
05:35that Western cinema
05:36has done
05:37mainly
05:38in our
05:39cinematographic culture
05:41and therefore
05:42a model that comes
05:44from another culture
05:46much more
05:47simplifying
05:48than ours.
05:50In short,
05:51the history of theater,
05:53just think,
05:54in short,
05:55of the Greek
05:56and then ours,
05:57also Anglo-Saxon,
05:58in short, etc.,
05:59is made of other models,
06:00of other complexities,
06:01as life is made.
06:02In the sense that
06:03human beings
06:04are capable
06:05of everything.
06:07This is enough
06:08to read,
06:09in short,
06:10any news,
06:11today,
06:12chronicle,
06:13not to think
06:14about the wars
06:15that are around,
06:16which are justified
06:17based on an ethic
06:19that then allows
06:20to determine
06:21that those who are bad
06:22must be exterminated.
06:23So,
06:24this ethic,
06:25on this ethic,
06:26it is necessary,
06:27because even criminals
06:28have a great ethic
06:29that relies
06:30on non-shareable values,
06:31so it depends
06:32on what values
06:33and this I insist
06:34on what are
06:35the cultural models
06:36of reference
06:37and that institutions
06:38should worry
06:39about proposing
06:40alternative models,
06:41that if the model
06:42is always profit
06:43at all costs
06:44and that's enough
06:45and only that counts
06:46cynically,
06:47not the common good
06:48of people,
06:49these effects
06:50are produced,
06:51even maybe
06:52in entrepreneurship,
06:53even in hospitals,
06:54even in school,
06:55where only the strongest
06:56wins
06:57and the important thing
06:58is the personal
06:59return of each one,
07:00this produces
07:01a destruction
07:02of the collective
07:03and therefore
07:04of our society
07:05and therefore
07:06we need to put
07:07some measures,
07:08but I repeat,
07:09in people,
07:10in the cultural growth
07:11of human beings,
07:12because then
07:13it is the human beings
07:14who make the choices,
07:15we can't blame
07:16politics,
07:17the mafia,
07:18it's us.